Information Quotes - Page 35

• New images surround us everywhere. They are invisible only because of sterile routine convention and fear. To find these images is to dare to see, to be aware of what there is and how it is. The photographer not only gets information, he gives information about life.

  Lisette Model

  Giving, Routine, Photographer

  Ann Thomas, Lisette Model, National Gallery of Canada (1990). “Lisette Model”, National Gallery of Canada

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• Fifty years from now I don't think optical realism is going to be an issue in visual communication any more. Experience is so much richer than light falling on your retina. You embody a microcosm of reality when you walk down the street - your memories, your varying degrees of awareness of what's going on around you, everything we could call the contextualizing information. Representing that information is going to be the main issue in the years ahead - how the world meets the mind, not the eye.

  Bill Viola

  Memories, Fall, Communication

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• Photographers encode their concepts as photographic images so as to give others information, so as to produce models for them and thereby to become immortal in the memory of others.

  Vilem Flusser

  Memories, Giving, Photographer

  Vilém Flusser (2000). “Towards a Philosophy of Photography”, p.48, Reaktion Books

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• You just can't make up random information and say it sarcastically and have it make sense. You can't just be like, 'I went out on a date with a Jewish girl. She was more rude than a wolfcat - an animal I've made up and decided is rude.

  Eugene Mirman

  Girl, Animal, Dating

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• The most successful stuff is sold to you as indispensable social information. The message in the music is, 'We are terribly, terribly slick and suave, and if you listen to us, you can probably get a leg up in society, too.'

  Iggy Pop

  Successful, Legs, Suave

  "Personal Quotes/Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Such compression of large amounts of information into a few exformation-rich macrostates with small quantities of nominal information are not only intelligent: they are very beautiful: yes, even sexy. Seing a jumble of confused data and shreds of rote learning compressed into a concise, clear message can be a real turn-on.

  Tor Nørretranders

  Beautiful, Sexy, Confused

  Tor Nørretranders (1999). “The User Illusion: Cutting Consciousness Down to Size”, Penguin Books

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• I noticed whenever you call information, 411, there's always a computer voice, and they go, 'What number would you like? City and state, please.' 'Yeah, I'd like the number of Macy's in Century City, California.' 'Did you say 'pretzel nuggets'?

  Andy Kindler

  Cities, Voice, California

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• The idea is to go from numbers to information to understanding.

  Hans Rosling

  Ideas, Numbers, Understanding

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• In my work, the information is the least important part. It's there, and the work wouldn't mean the same thing without it, but it isn't structured around the information. The most interesting part to me is the visual play... looking at this little universe of representation that I can make out of the world.

  Judy Fiskin

  Mean, Play, Interesting

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• The heart [of my work], the quintessential, remains the questioning of photographic truth. Be careful, be critical, doubt, and filter the information you receive.

  Joan Fontcuberta

  Heart, Doubt, Filters

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• We turn our own lives into an information archive by storing all our emails, SMS, digital photos, and other digital traces of our existence.

  Lev Manovich

  Email, Sms, Archives

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• What I aim at is an image with a minimum of information and markers, that has no reference to a given time or place.

  Sarah Moon

  Given, Aim, Minimum

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• The photographic frame is no longer used as a documentary window into undisturbed private lives, but as a stage on which the subjects consciously direct themselves to bring forward hidden information that is not normally displayed on the surface.

  Arthur Tress

  Documentaries, Window, Stage

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• The NSA's business is 'information dominance,' the use of other people's secrets to shape events.

  Barton Gellman

  Nsa, People, Secret

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• Scientists who study brain-wave activity found that the longer one watches television, the more likely the brain will slip into "alpha" level: a slow, steady brain-wave pattern in which the mind is in its most receptive mode. It is noncoggnitive mode; i.e., information can be placed into the mind directly, without viewer participation.

  Jerry Mander

  Brain, Mind, Watches

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• Twittering and blogging and all that is fine, but there is no idea of how to phrase something beautifully; how to use language to create an emotion. It's just passing information and sometimes very superficial information.

  Isabel Allende

  Ideas, Blogging, Phrases

  Interview with Priya George, bigthink.com. May 3, 2010.

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• There is no body of theory or significant body of relevant information, beyond the comprehension of the layman, which makes policy immune from criticism.

  Noam Chomsky

  Criticism, Body, Significant

  Noam Chomsky (2010). “The Chomsky Reader”, p.67, Pantheon

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• If we want people on the front lines of companies to be responsible for making good business decisions, they must have the same information that managers use to make good business decisions.

  Ken Blanchard

  People, Decision, Use

  Ken Blanchard, John P. Carlos, Alan Randolph (1999). “The 3 Keys to Empowerment: Release the Power Within People for Astonishing Results”, p.47, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• It sometimes occurs that memory has a personality of its own and volunteers or refuses its information at its will, not at mine.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Memories, Volunteer, Personality

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1992). “The Topical Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.336, University of Missouri Press

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• It's crucial with today's challenges that our children feel they have a source of information they can trust in their parents.

  Gloria Estefan

  Children, Parent, Challenges

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• I didn't write any music at all, and then, I remember Jon Anderson being very insistent saying that there were two kinds of musicians: the ones who wrote music and the ones who didn't. And clearly the ones who wrote music were more superior human beings in his mind. So he kind of nudged me and sort of prodded me into it. I picked it up slowly. Then I learned more about chords and harmony and I just kept adding to that. One of the great things about having good players in your band is that you just ask them questions. You can pick up some good information that way.

  Bill Bruford

  Writing, Player, Two

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• Journalistic information and presentation actually discourage action... we think we know, and because we think we know, we think we care. But it stops there.

  Alfredo Jaar

  Thinking, Care, Action

  Alfredo Jaar, Willie Avon Drake, Anderson Gallery, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (1991). “Alfredo Jaar: geography”, Virginia Commonwealth Univ

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• The essential characteristic of digital information is that it can be manipulated easily and very rapidly by computer... Computational tools for transforming, combining, altering, and analyzing images are as essential to the digital artist as brushes and pigments to a painter.

  William J. Mitchell

  Artist, Essentials, Tools

  William J. Mitchell (1994). “The Reconfigured Eye: Visual Truth in the Post-photographic Era”, p.6, MIT Press

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• I don't want to know everything about bands, I want to have some mystique remain because sometimes when you get all of this information you realize that they are just people and that actually takes away a little bit from the aura of somebody.

  John Bush

  People, Want, Littles

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• I dream of a peaceful world. Music is the best means I have to work on that dream. Each time I have the opportunity to play, it is another chance to tell the truth. Life on the planet has come down to such an acute degree of ADD it is terrifying. We are constantly being bombarded from all directions with information - most of it useless that serves to bifurcate the mind. I am afraid that people are going to go from birth to death and never know they were here or why they were here.

  Charles Lloyd

  Dream, Mean, Opportunity

  "A Fireside Chat With Charles Lloyd". All About Jazz Interview, www.allaboutjazz.com. May 17, 2004.

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